Free wagon rides in Glace Bay a hit with families

Cape Breton Post

Published: Mar 18 at 10:09 p.m.

Paul MacDonald, left, and Amber Lynn Barrett drive a wagon full of families around John Bernard Croak Memorial Park in Glace Bay on Sunday. The free wagon rides from Two Rivers Wildlife Park were sponsored by the CBRM as part of its Taste of Winter festivities. - Nikki Sullivan

The wagon rides provided by Two Rivers Wildlife Park were sponsored by the Cape Breton Regional Municipality recreation department as part of the Taste of Winter festivities.

“It’s nice to have something like this in Glace Bay for March break. Most of the events we go to are in Sydney,” said Ashley Edwards, who was there with her husband and their two sons ages three and four.

“I was expecting a lineup. I guess the cold was too much for some people,” said her friend Shaylene MacNeil, who was there with her six-year-old daughter.

While every kid seemed to enjoy the wagon rides and petting the horses, four-year-old Blake Burke seemed to enjoy the experience a little bit more.

“She was very excited for the horses,” her mother Laura Lee Morrison said with a laugh.

“Even if she was frozen she wouldn’t admit it. She loves the horses and she just loves to be outside in general.”

As Burke and Morrison waited for the first wagon ride to return so they could get on, Burke giggled and started jumping up and down as the horses got closer. When Paul MacDonald, one of the volunteers from Two Rivers Wildlife Park driving the wagon, asked if everyone was ready for the ride, Burke was the only one to scream yes.

Sitting at the front of the wagon, Burke could hardly control her excitement when MacDonald handed her a rein he wasn’t using and told her to help him drive.